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Help Others Save Face

In: Developing Global Leaders

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  • Bob Johnson
  • Rob Oberwise

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Defined in broad terms, saving face involves maintaining other people’s honor and respect in the eyes of their peers. To lose face is to lose one’s self-esteem relative to other people. While employees in the West have their own sense of saving face, it tends to be a much less significant factor than in developing countries. In the West, people may experience wounded egos or feel that they’ve been unfairly criticized by their boss in a team meeting, but in most instances they can get past this loss of face with minimal impact on their work performance. In the United States and other Western countries, we’ve been told that we need to develop a thick skin, that we must solicit and learn from tough feedback, and that we have to put our egos aside in order to acknowledge our weaknesses and address them.

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  • Bob Johnson & Rob Oberwise, 2012. "Help Others Save Face," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Developing Global Leaders, chapter 0, pages 141-162, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-51213-0_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-51213-0_7
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